We all remember when Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway got the wrong envelope at the Academy Awards.  The whole cast of La La Land standing proudle on stage only to have the award taken away and given to the cast and crew of Moonlight.  What I didn’t knowin this moment was the huge influence that one Asian director had on this Oscar winner.

Moonight‘s director, Barry Jenkins, has stated in interviews that one of his biggest influences is Chinese born director, Won Kar-Wai.  It’s easy to see the influence in this side-by-side comparison.  Wong Kar-Wai has made some of the most visually stunning films ever put to film.  You could take any single frame from of his film In The Mood for Love and put it on a wall.  I highly recommend Moonlight and the films of Wong Kar-Wai.